Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1887-08-11


his road,cart was missing and rapid
inspection showed that with the wagon
had gone two valuable bay mares and a
set of single harness, one of the horses
being the same that was stolen on the
Goth, and recovered at Wapello. and the
other its mother The marks and course
OF egress from the premises indicate that
the thieves carried the two. wheel vehicle
some distances by hand, probably to avoid
the noise its running would have made.
A serious accident occurred at Buck.
ingham, near Traer, Aug /. Fred Nash,
farm hand of Mr.. Sam Everett. started
with the latter's team and two-seated car
rage to take the three Misses Brown out
riding. After assisting two into the bug
gy he turned to see il the third was com.
ing; the horses sprang forward and ran,
dragging him on the ground for some dis
lance. lie was obliged to let go the lines,
and one of the ladies jumped from the
buggy. The other was thrown out and
both badly hurt, each with q broken
ankle and Miss Bessie with spinal injuries
also. One of the horses, worth 5000, was
50 badly hurt as to be killed soon after,
and the buggy was completely demolish-
cd. The young man, strangely, escaped
unhurt.
Jacob Hcffelfnger, of Grundy Center,
committed suicide Sunday morning, July
81, by shooting himself through the brain.
MIR. Heifellinger was about IS years OF
age, and for the past nine months has
made his homo with his nephew, John
Hefrelfngcr.
George Harmon was arrested at Mt
Vernon, for throwing rails on the Chicago
& Northwestern track to wreck an engine.
The Griswold American last week says:
On Saturday last was the day set by the
travelling grocery frauds who have been
canvassing this territory during the past
month or six weeks, and the number of
of orders taken. we are sorry to say,
reached nearly, if altogether, one hundred
ranging all the way from ten to thirty five
dollars A majority of the parties giving
these orders were on hand to receive the
goods, and everything went along lovely
for short time, or until the weight of
these frauds were tested. which proved
to be about twenty per cent short,
and then storm of indignation went up.
The frauds at first attempted to lay the
Of weight to other scales, but
when they were met face to face with
two hundred dollars as forcible reminder
that the scales just used were correct they
wilted, the farmers clicked and as n
the frauds had number Of
parcels of goods left on their hands.
The annual report of Superintendent
Akers shows LEES ungraded schools in
the State and $50 graded rooms. The
average duration of the school year in
1886 was 7.3 months, and 5,927 men and
Is, 748 women welded the birch and
heard the lessons of the half million pupils
enrolled. The average compensation of |
male teachers was $3S AZ, and of females |
800, TO- There were $685. 1856 minors be- |
tween FIVE and twenty years enrolled,
and to whom is made distribution from |
the school fund, but the total average at
tendance was only about three seventies |
Of the whole. The average cost tuition |
per scholar was S2.1S The number of |
frame school houses is II 1887; brick, 1877; |
,tone, 1877; log 43. The value of school |
apparatus is $250, 1875. The total number
Of volumes in the libraries is 46, 527, and |
the number of shade trees on school |
grounds is 10000. OF the professional
certificates held by teachers $50 are held
by men and $40 by women. or first grade
certificates 2,463 are held by men, and
!, 1887 by women; second grade 2,407 by
and 0, 237 by women; third grade, 4S8 by
men, and 2, 232 by women. The average
lge Of applicants was twenty-f for
males and twenty-one for females